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Posted by: Dakusan

This is fixable by editing the preferences directly (See last part of this post), as this is just a problem with the configuration section.

I went ahead and got my development environment set up and the problem tested. Unfortunately, this looks like a problem with either our hardware (I am suspect since I am running on mac hardware w/ EFI), or GTK itself. GTK isn't detecting the windows key at all as a meta key (like shift, alt, or ctrl), so I would have to do some major changes in that section to program around this. A new version of GTK may have this fixed. This report looks like it may be promising.

So I'll have to experiment with newer versions of GTK later and see if these are compatible with pidgin to fix this...

I wouldn't hold your breath on this getting fixed any time soon though, sorry.

However, you can manually set your own keyboard shortcuts that will work directly with windows by editing your prefs.xml (C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\.purple\prefs.xml) WHEN PIDGIN IS CLOSED. Search for "<pref name='StatusHotKeys'>" and then edit the associated "Action#_Key" by adding 524288 to its number to add the win key. I have tested and confirmed this works.

I'll have to get my development environment set back up to figure out what the values should be for me, and hopefully for you, and release a new version. Not sure when I'll get to this, but maybe soon. If you want to try to compile the code yourself you might be able to figure it out too.

Posted by: Dakusan

Strange, I checked the code and it looks like it was programmed to accept the windows key as a meta/bucky key. I tested it myself and I have confirmed it does not seem to be working as intended with that. To help me narrow down the problem, what operating system are you using? Do you happen to be using apple hardware?

Posted by: Dakusan

I installed the latest version of pidgin on a fresh windows install and could not reproduce the problem. Could you give me more information that might help me reproduce this? Operating system version and CPU type (x86 or x64)? If there is any other information that might help me diagnose it?

Posted by: Dakusan

Nope, sorry. Since there are so many Linux distributions you generally can't compile one "universal binary" like you can for windows. It's one of the downsides of Linux, but they go with a different paradigm for it via package management systems. Someone would have to make a package of it for your specific distribution for that to be possible. That being said, if you are running Unbuntu (just a guess), I think all you have to do (if memory serves) is extract the source, edit the "INSTALL_PATH" in config.linux to point to your libpurple user directory (hopefully it should already be right), and then run "make install".

Posted by: Dakusan

One of the problems is that I don't want to make the number of possible options bloated and confusing, and adding in too many ways to hide/display the buddy list might do that... Technically implementing either of these would already be duplicating functionality (hide/show can be bound to separate keys...).

Even so, I think it would be good to go ahead and implement at least one of the two... and I'm thinking the toggle visibility (not paying attention to focus) would be more useful to people.

I guess I COULD add both... but I have had a past bad habit of adding too many features in my apps and causing bloat (not code, but user interface), and I'm trying to avoid that nowadays. x.x;

Any thoughts anyone? If I don't hear anything convincing in the near future, I'll probably add a hotkey to duplicate the functionality of double clicking the task tray icon.

On another note, I already have the option to stop displaying the buddy list in the task tray... and I'm thinking about adding another option to not have it show up in alt+tab. This would take a large rewrite of the functionality of a few sections though and I'm not sure if I want to deal with that without the pressing need to, heh. Would this be really useful to anyone? (Not that I'm necessarily expecting many people to see this :-(. Original intent of this site was to get a large user base going but then I never pushed or advertised it, bleck).

Posted by: Dakusan_RestorePosts

Great project man!Minor request if you have the time; I think it'd be easy enough.Can you add, in addition to Focus Buddy List and Hide Buddy List, a Toggle Buddy List that will show/hide back and forth as appropriate? It would complete the package for me